BACKGROUND Residency training is charged with improving resident teaching skills. Utilizing simulation in teacher training has unique advantages such as providing a controlled learning environment and opportunities for deliberate practice. OBJECTIVE We assessed the impact of a simulation-based resident-as-teacher (RaT) program. DESIGN A RaT program was embedded in an existing 8-case simulat...

Since the Smith-Hughes Act in the early 1900's, there has been a continuing need to prepare people who possess competence in occupational fields to teach in high schools, technical colleges, and community colleges. Most often these people begin teaching with little teacher education. They are hired first, and later receive in-service teacher education while they are teaching. Originally, most s...

The purpose of this study was, (a) to describe the introduction of MVAL software and Charlotte Danielson Rubrics (CDR) as teacher evaluation tools; (b) to compare the process and outcomes of the new initiative with traditional systems, and (c) to evaluate the software from the perspective of participants in the system. This study highlights the need for public school district to improve the pro...

The STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Project) Web is an innovative learning environment on the World Wide Web that supports case-based instruction for teacher education. Created by UW–Madison education professor Sharon Derry and colleagues, STEP Web resources aim to help future teachers acquire a scientific language for thinking about how students learn and develop within disciplines; instruct...

This paper provides a review of recent policy initiatives to reform teacher compensation systems and evidence regarding the effect of these policies. The first section examines the current structure of teacher compensation in the U.S. K-12 public education system. The compensation “system” for teachers is fragmented and uncoordinated. Teacher compensation is largely set by salary schedules that...

Web-based learning environments have been extensively developed, adopted and in consequence a large amount of data has been collected from various web-based teaching experiments. Often platforms, web-based courses and web-based training services have been evaluated from rather narrow points of view. Further development of evaluation should to be based on a multidisciplinary framework right from...